linux-kernel - Re: nohz: Warn if the machine can not perform nohz

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Message-ID: <1373914182.17876.165.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:49:42 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nohz: Warn if the machine can not perform nohz_full

On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 13:38 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:24:23PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:18:02PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>  >  
>  >  > > So I guess you guys never want this to be enabled on distro kernels ?
>  >  > > If that's the case, can you add something to that effect in Kconfig ?
>  >  > 
>  >  > I believe we want it to be enabled on distros in the long term. But right now it would
>  >  > be a bad idea until the off case (nohz_full= parameter empty) is carefully optimized.
>  >  > I'm currently working on that.
>  >  > 
>  >  > Now for the unstable tsc, which is what it's about on the above code block, we need
>  >  > the tick to be there to leverage the sched clock madness. May be there could be some
>  >  > other solution that could work along full dynticks but for now we chose the easy path.
>  >  > 
>  >  > Are broken TSCs that common?
>  >  
>  > I just hit one apparently.  http://paste.fedoraproject.org/25421/73907845/raw/
>  > That's a fairly recent Atom board, so I suspect it's not uncommon on that platform.
> 
> And here's a Core Duo from circa 2008.
> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/25429/13739098/raw
> 
> Two for two so far. I get the feeling you guys are going to get a ton of these reports.
> 

Hmm, we should only warn if the user tried to enable nohz-full via the
command line. But it looks like it warns even without enabling
nohz-full, which wasn't the desired effect.

I'll look at this, and send a patch to make sure the warning only
happens when the user tries to use nohz-full, and doesn't just compile
it in. The point of the patch is to not let the user think they have
nohz-full when they don't.

-- Steve


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